CHAPTER 6JAMES’S FIRST CONTRACT FOR SPECFORCE was this meeting. The military needed his special expertise very, very much. They needed to know if McNeel Blau lied or held anything back when he gave up his co-conspirator, and only James could be certain of that. They just didn’t want James going all unstable on them. So Anais and Lance had assured SpecForce they would send along his no-fail security blanket: Matt.
That’s how Anais got Matt into this meeting. James knew it absolutely. Playing up his instability was the same way they got James discharged in the first place, even with the implant. The military (or rather, SpecOps Accounting, probably) didn’t want him walking around armed and covered under their insurance policy. Walking around armed and covered by the Queer Extraction Service
